Thursday, April 26, 2007

This poem, and poet, was posted as a commentary to one of my previous posts. I like the poem so much that I wanted to post it in my own blog as well. billyhowl, if you are out there (could only find your profile, not your blog or any contact details) - I would like to send you a poem in return, by a Scandinavian poet. If I can't find you, I'll just post it here.

Love,TheklaFailing and Flyingby Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.It's the same when love comes to an end,or the marriage fails and people saythey knew it was a mistake, that everybodysaid it would never work. That she wasold enough to know better. But anythingworth doing is worth doing badly.Like being there by that summer oceanon the other side of the island whilelove was fading out of her, the starsburning so extravagantly those nights thatanyone could tell you they would never last.Every morning she was asleep in my bedlike a visitation, the gentleness in herlike antelope standing in the dawn mist.Each afternoon I watched her coming backthrough the hot stony field after swimming,the sea light behind her and the huge skyon the other side of that. Listened to herwhile we ate lunch. How can they saythe marriage failed? Like the people whocame back from Provence (when it was Provence)and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,but just coming to the end of his triumph

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